(the) Woman
By Jane Upton, Directed by Angharad Jones
M is a writer. M is a mother. M is a woman.
The triumph of M’s hit play is hijacked by motherhood – M is burnt out, angry, lonely, craving intimacy but disengaged, and terrified of the future.
She wants to tell her story, her way. But, everyone around her shares their opinions on who she is, who she should be and how she’s f*cking everything up.
Fiercely funny and brutally honest, award-winning writer Jane Upton’s Bruntwood Prize shortlisted play shatters the glossy veneer of motherhood, exposing its raw, messy truth, and dares to question the definition of (her) self.
Post Show Q&A: Tue 30 Sep
Join us after (the) Woman for a special Q&A session hosted by director Angharad Jones with writer Jane Upton and members of the cast delving into the process of creating (the) Woman. The company will discuss the inspiration behind the play, its journey through development to production and the play’s themes. This event is free to attend for same-day ticket-holders.
New Perspectives Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19:30
Thu & Sat15:00
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Duration
Approx 90 mins
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Tickets
£25 - £49.50
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
15+
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Content warnings
This production contains strong language, references to baby loss and references of a sexual nature.
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In the press
"blends bellyaching humour with intimate revelations"
The Guardian
"utterly compelling ... a bold, provocative piece of theatre"
The Reviews Hub
"exceeds anticipation in the very best way"
A Youngish Perspective
"Bold and unapologetic"
The Stage
"raw, honest and unfiltered"
Theatre Weekly
"reflected the continuing obstacles women face in society"
London Box Office
"Unmissable"
The Reviews Hub
"Bitterly funny... it challenges your assumptions"
East Midlands Theatre
"An honest and unpretentious play "
West End Best Friend
"audiences fully immersed in the power of the dialogue"
Operation Live Theatre
Cast and creatives
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Lizzy Watts
Lizzy Watts
Theatre includes: The Commotion Time (Exeter Northcott); SHED: Exploded View (Manchester Royal Exchange); Either and Ravenscourt (Hampstead); Dealing With Clair and The False Servant (Orange Tree); Hedda Gabler (National Theatre); Strife (Chichester); Angry Brigade and Artefacts (The Bush); God of Chaos and Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blink (Nabokov); Twelfth Night (Filter) and Wasted (Paines Plough).
TV includes: Call The Midwife, Professor T, Endeavour, The Durrells and Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: The Best Man.
Lizzy has recorded many radio dramas for the BBC and played regular character Ivy Layton in Radio 4’s Home Front.
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Jamie-Rose Monk
Jamie-Rose Monk
Jamie-Rose trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Romeo and Juliet (The Globe); (the) Woman (New Perspectives/Royal & Derngate UK Tour); Hansel and Gretel; Princess Essex; The Taming of the Shrew (The Globe); Christmas Actually (The Southbank Centre); Greatest Days The Musical (National Tour); The Witch Finder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Talent (Sheffield Crucible); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Park Theatre); Yap Yap Yap (Royal Festival Hall and Soho Theatre); Fat – A One Woman Show (Hackney Showrooms/Gaggle Productions); The Poisoners’ Pact (Stuff of Dreams Tour) and Monologue Slam Winner’s Edition (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Triforce Promotions).
Television credits include: My Lady Jane (Amazon Studios); Gangsta Granny Strikes Again (BBC); Doctors (Semi Regular, BBC); Holby City (BBC); Class Dismissed (Series Regular, Series 1-3, CBBC) and Gameface (Objective Fiction).
Film credits include: Holmes & Watson (Columbia Pictures Corporation).
Comedy credits include: Buttery Brown Monk (Leicester Square Theatre) and The Gag Show (Gaggle Productions).
Radio credits include: Sketchtopia – Series 1 & 2 (BBC Radio 4) and Athena’s Cancel Culture (BBC Radio 4).
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André Squire
André Squire
Theatre includes: One Night in Miami (ABKCO Theater/Nottingham Playhouse); The Grapes of Wrath (Nuffield Theatre); The Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Lonely Cowboy (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Blue (Arts Theatre, Notts); Measure for Measure (ITV Workshop); Romeo and Juliet (ITV Workshop) and Our Style Is Legendary (Nottingham Playhouse).
Television includes: Blade Runner 2099 (Amazon Prime); Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (Etta Pictures); 3 Little Birds (Tiger Aspect); FBI International (CBS Studios); Nova Jones (JAM Media); Worzel Gummidge (Leopard Pictures); Gold Digger (BBC); Gormint (Amazon Prime); Jamie Johnson (CBBC); Doctors, West 10 LDN (Kudos); Off the Hook (Greenroom Entertainment/BBC); The Vice (Carlton TV) and A Thing Called Love (BBC).
Film includes: Greenland: Migration; BYPASS (Third Films) and One for the Road (Film Four).
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Josh Goulding
Josh Goulding
Theatre credits include: Alone, Together (Theatre Royal Windsor); Hangmen (Broadway); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Trainspotting (Brass Jar Productions); The Price of Thomas Scott (Mint Theater); All’s Well That Ends Well and Richard III (MaineStage Shakespeare) and 1984 (Royal Exchange Theatre).
Television credits include: Masters of the Air and Teens on Trial.
Film credits include: A Beautiful Imperfection and The Book of Clarence.
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Jane Upton
Writer
Jane Upton
Writer
Jane’s plays include The Price of Home (Paines Plough & Derby Theatre: Come to Where I Am, S6); Finding Nana (Pleasance Edinburgh Festival, dir Katie Posner, New Perspectives); All the Little Lights (Fifth Word, UK tour, Arcola Theatre); Watching the Living – an adaptation of two short stories by Daphne Du Maurier (New Perspectives, UK tour); Swimming (Menagerie Theatre, Hotbed Festival, Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Festival) and Bones (Fifth Word, Edinburgh Festival and UK tour). After being nominated by Paines Plough, Jane won the Adopt a Playwright Award 2024. All the Little Lights was nominated for Best Play for the 2019 OFFIES and for the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards; it was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. Jane received a bursary from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and was shortlisted for CBBC New Voices Initiative.
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Angharad Jones
Director
Angharad Jones
Director
Angharad is Artistic Director/CEO of New Perspectives. Before joining New Perspectives she co-founded and led new writing company Fifth Word for 15 years. Directing credits include: Model Village (UK tour); The Swearing Jar (UK tour); The Great Almighty Gill (Edinburgh Fringe/UK tour); script in hand reading of MARYLAND by Lucy Kirkwood; The Fishermen (Associate Director, world premiere tour and West End run); LAVA (world premiere Nottingham Playhouse, Soho & UK tour); All The Little Lights (Associate Director, Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour – joint winner of the George Devine Award and nominated for Best New Play at the Writers’ Guild Awards); Bones (Edinburgh Fringe/Tristan Bates Theatre/UK tour) and Painkillers (Edinburgh Fringe & UK tour). New Perspectives co-productions include: We Need New Names in association with Brixton House and Make Good – The Post Office Scandal Musical with Pentabus, marking the Golden Anniversary of both companies.
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Sara Perks
Designer
Sara Perks
Designer
Sara Perks has designed over 300 shows to date, for UK & world tours, regional theatres, immersive & site specific, West End and National Theatre; and for genres including Shakespeare, classic drama, devised work, family shows, new writing, comedy and musicals.
Current productions include: Mary & The Hyenas (Pilot Theatre & Hull Truck); The Gift (Park Theatre, London); Jesus Christ Superstar (Spring ’25 Scenekvelder, Oslo); The Mind Mangler (currently Virgin Voyagers; but also UK Tour ’23-24 and West End ’24).
More recent Productions include: Flowers For Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios – Costume Design – Aria Ents and Tiny Giant); You Bury Me – The Women’s Playwriting Award from Paines Plough (Bristol Old Vic &Edinburgh Lyceum, Orange Tree); Good Luck, Studio (Mischief, Mercury Theatre & Wiltshire Creative); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour Aria & GHF) 71, Coltman Street, Richard Bean’s new play for Hull Truck’s 50th Anniversary; UK & International Tour of Footloose and Tim Firth’s new musical Now Is Good (Chester Storyhouse).
Other work includes: American Idiot, Spamalot, Footloose (West End & UK & International Tours); Hello Dolly!, Gypsy, Hot Stuff! (Curve) and The King and I (UK tour); Beauty Queen of Leenane (Hull Truck); Brideshead Revisited (York & English Touring Theatre UK tour); the all-female Oranges and Elephants (London); the all-female POSH (London); The Suffragette Project (York); Brighton Rock for Pilot (UK tour); Mother Courage (site specific with Pauline McLynn) for Red Ladder; Spring Storm & Beyond The Horizon (National Theatre & Northampton); The Mold Riots (Clwyd); Betty Blue Eyes, Sweeney Todd, Turn Of The Screw (UK tours); Journey’s End, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the promenade, multidiscipline, site specific Depot amongst many shows at The Mercury, Colchester.
She was Head of Design for Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre at York (managing teams for eight concurrent productions) & she specifically designed Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Hamlet, as well as the theatre stage & facade (2018-19, York & Oxford).
She has held Resident Associate Designer positions at both at The Mercury and English Touring Theatre, and was nominated for Broadway World Award and What’s On Stage Award (American Idiot); for an Offie (Oranges & Elephants and Flowers For Mrs Harris). The latter was awarded Best Off West End Production by Whats On Stage ’23. She holds an Edinburgh Fringe First; The John Elvery Theatre Design Award, and a Vision Design (Costume) Award from the BBC.
She holds a BA Hons in Drama & Theatre Studies; and trained in Theatre Design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Lily Woodford
Lighting Designer
Lily Woodford
Lighting Designer
Lily is a London-based lighting designer with experience in technical design and production management. Lily studied at Goldsmiths, University of London where their love of all things beautifully strange was solidified. They thrive on creating work that pushes the boundaries of conventional design to build powerful, thought provoking spaces. They have worked as a lighting designer for productions such as Julia Masli (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha); FOREVERLAND (Southwark Playhouse); Frankie Thompson (CAttS, Body Show); Liv Ello (SWARM, Jack the Mack, Body Show); Adrian Bliss (Inside Everyone); Eloina (HIGH STEAKS) and Stamptown Comedy (STAMPTOWN, Jack Tucker).
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Bella Kear
Sound Designer
Bella Kear
Sound Designer
Bella trained at LAMDA. Her work in theatre includes, as Sound Designer: Summer 1954 (Theatre Royal Bath) and on tour; Here In America (Orange Tree Theatre); The Good John Proctor (Offie nominated), Boy in Da Korma (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Great Murder Mystery (The Lost Estate); Invisible (Bush Theatre and New York); Elephant and Clutch (Bush Studio); The Night Woman (The Other Place); The Animal Kingdom (Hampstead Theatre).
As Associate or Assistant Sound Designer: Mnemonic (Olivier Theatre); Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse); Silence (Donmar Warehouse); Edith (The Lowry); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath and tour); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Riksteatern); A Place for We (Park Theatre); and Sizwe Banzi is Dead (MAST Mayflower Studios and tour).
Other projects include Mudlarking, a sound installation at the Bush Theatre.
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Sarah Dickenson
Dramaturg
Sarah Dickenson
Dramaturg
Brought up in North Cornwall, Sarah is a writer and dramaturg with over two decades of experience developing new plays nationally and internationally. As dramaturg she is currently working on projects with Paines Plough, Chichester Festival Theatre, New Perspectives, Jennifer Jackson and Tilted. Her previous roles have included: Associate Dramaturg for Paines Plough, Associate Dramaturg for LAMDA, Associate Dramaturg for the RSC, Production Dramaturg for Shakespeare’s Globe, Senior Reader at Soho Theatre, Literary Manager for Theatre503, New Writing Associate at The Red Room. She has been dramaturg on performance projects and artist development nationally and internationally for organisations and theatre makers including: Shakespeare North, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmund’s, Minack Theatre, Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Theatre Centre, National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Bristol, Old Vic New Voices, Liverpool Everyman, Theatre Royal Bath, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Tamasha, Apples and Snakes, Almeida, Hall for Cornwall, The Fence and Churchill Theatre Bromley.
As playwright: The Commotion Time (Exeter Northcott); From The Horses Mouth (O-Region); Come To Where I’m From (Paines Plough); North Ealing (Theatre503/ Rose Bruford); PowerPlay (Hampton Court); Everything’s Fine (co-writer book, Tilted Co).
She is a recipient of 2025 Playwright 73 award from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation with Exeter Northcott and Shakespeare’s Globe.
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Matt Powell
Video Designer
Matt Powell
Video Designer
Matt (they/them) is an Offie-nominated video designer, musical theatre creative and queer practitioner.
Recent Video Design and Digital credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Sheffield Crucible); Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist (The Other Palace); The Elixir of Love (English National Opera); Brace Brace (Royal Court); Ghost Ships (Icon Theatre); The Real Ones (Bush Theatre); Mother of the Revolution (Leeds Industrial Museum); New Year (Birmingham Opera); Marie Curie – A New Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath); Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood (The Watermill Theatre); Exhibitionists (King’s Head Theatre); I Really Do Think That This Will Change Your Life (Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh & Stage Awards for Innovation Finalist – Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Gypsy in Concert (Manchester Opera House for Hope Mill Theatre); Rebecca (Charing Cross Theatre); Ride (The Old Globe, Curve and Southwark Playhouse); Animal (Offie Finalist – Hope Mill Theatre and Park Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sheffield Theatres and Lyric Hammersmith); Rumi: The Musical (D’asha Performing Arts Festival and London Coliseum) and Flight (Royal College of Music).
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Lucy Glassbrook
Movement Director
Lucy Glassbrook
Movement Director
Lucy is a Movement Director and Intimacy Director from the Midlands. She has a master’s degree in Movement Directing and Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and has trained and worked professionally as an actor and dancer. She has always loved physical storytelling and explores movement languages to enable embodied storytelling, character creation and devising, through a consent-based inclusive practice. Her theatrical work contributed to an “Offie” nomination for Best New Play Lately, Profoca Theatre. She also teaches at various institutions around the UK in Movement practices such as Laban, Animal Studies, Somatic Movement and Intimacy workshops.
Theatre Includes: Pontypool (Wales Millenium Centre); Little Women (HOME & Pitlochry Theatre); Thrown (National Theatre of Scotland); Bindweed (Arcola/Mercury Theatre); Cyrano De Berscherac / Wuthering Heights (Birmingham REP); Fighting Irish (Belgrade Theatre); Pride & Prejudice (Curve Theatre); Flashbang (Proforca Theatre); Hansel & Gretel (Nottingham Playhouse) and SONDER (Centrality Theatre).
Mass Movement Includes: Dance Captain, Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games 2022, Assistant Movement Director & Choreographer City of Culture Opening Ceremony.
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Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG
Casting Director
Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG
Casting Director
Ellie is a freelance casting director based in Sheffield.
West End credits include: Witness For the Prosecution, Killer Joe, Adrian Mole, The Wider Earth. Off West End credits include: Antigone (on strike), 23.5 Hours, Romeo & Juliet, Ages of the Moon, The Permanent Way, The Girl Who Fell, 3 Women, A Guide for the Homesick, Madame Rubenstein, Dirty Great Love Story, Fool for Love, Sideways.
UK Tours include: The Shark is Broken, And Then There Were None, Birdsong, Frankenstein, Murder at Midnight, Macbeth, The Mirror Cracked, Handbagged, Arcadia, (the) Woman, The Swearing Jar, Dusty, The Good Enough Mums Club, The Croft, A Splinter of Ice, The Night Watch, Wait Until Dark, French without Tears, Night Must Fall.
Regional credits include: Death and the King’s Horseman and The Hypochondriac (Sheffield Crucible), Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Everyman), Alice in Wonderland, Welfare and A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre),This is a Love Story (Birmingham Hippodrome), Peter Pan and Hansel and Gretel (Rose Theatre Kingston), They Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Mercury Colchester), The Secret Garden (TBTL and York Theatre Royal), Little Women (York Theatre Royal), Ladies Day (Wolverhampton Grand), As You Like It, Miss Julie, Remarkable Invisible, After The Dance, William Wordsworth, Two Way Mirror (Theatre by the Lake), The Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Southampton), Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric Belfast), Playhouse Creatures, Blue Remembered Hills, Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Immersive credits: Elvis Evolution, The War of the Worlds, The Gunpowder Plot, Plied and Prejudice.
Kids casting: The King and I & Wind in the Willows (London Palladium), Doctor Doolittle & Macbeth (UK Tours).
Ellie previously worked as Casting Associate for the Ambassador Theatre Group.
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Jessy Roberts
Associate Director
Jessy Roberts
Associate Director
Jessy is a director and dramaturg who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and The University of York. She is Senior Reader at the National Theatre, Associate Director of The Rondo Theatre and of Bomb Factory Theatre, and a New Associate with New Perspectives.
Recent Credits as Director include: The Incredibly Scary Object (The Jack Studio Theatre); PAKIt In (R&D, New Perspectives); Tap Root (The Glitch); THIRST (Vaults Festival); Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play (Omnibus Theatre); Girls With Wings & Trauma and BRANDED (both Bomb Factory Theatre).
As Assistant Director: Octopolis (Hampstead Theatre); Everybody Wants To be Ronaldo (Tectum Theatre/Birmingham Rep); Broken Lad (Arcola Theatrer); Absolute Scenes (Motion Bristol) and Crimes Camera Action (Theatre Royal Bath).
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